Quotes About Class

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

You are a nobleman?" I eyed him and the others listening to us with a heavy sigh. "I am the Viscount of Marsdale. My father is the Earl of Dorshire." All eyes went wide. "Oh, stop, it is a mere accident of birth.

Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge.

Her voice had suddenly jumped a couple of social classes to underline her ownership status.

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

The day I went into physics class it was death.

You know what he did for a living before the war? Sold champagne. A liquor salesman, Sandy. A fake—a plutocrat and a thief and a fake. Even the 'von' in his name is a fake.

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.

I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.

The very bad men come from the class of those who have power. And yet in that very class there may arise good men, and worthy of all admiration they are, for where there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly is a hard thing, and greatly to be praised, and few there are who attain to this.

there will be no injustice in compelling our philosophers to have a care and providence of others; we shall explain to them that in other States, men of their class are not obligated to share in the toils of politics: and this is reasonable, for they grow up at their own sweet will, and the government would rather not have them.

The difference between the two classes is often a trivial concern; but in a state, and when affecting really important matters, becomes of all disorders the most hateful.

When ideas are manipulated for personal ends, for class or group interests, the name for this is sophistry.

Every class, then, has plurality of being and infinity of not-being.

Rich kids—they can never admit they're rich.

Socialism is politicized envy.

heard of the Loch Ness Monster?" Mrs. Hardesty asked. Several hands went up. "Here she goes again," I whispered to DeWayne. He sat beside me in class. DeWayne rolled his eyes. "Always monsters." "The other sixth-grade class is doing the Civil War," I said. "All we talk about is monsters. How weird is that?

She doesn't usually back down that easily." "Maybe she's got class." Eve snorted. "Trust me," she said. "That girl's got no class at all.

But as usual, the common folk are wiser and more able to discern the truth of things than are the elites who claim to serve them.

When a leader used his power over the ruled for the purpose of settling scores and inflating his self-esteem, for remaking society according to his own grand designs, class warfare and genocide ensued.